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  • Why we say an historical but a history [duplicate]
    Closed 13 years ago Possible Duplicate: When should I use “a” versus “an” in front of a word beginning with the letter h? Why do we say an historical but a history? This question was originally posed by @shanselman on Twitter
  • Why is it the day is young, not still early? What is the history of . . .
    "The day is young" corresponds to "the hour is early" or better still simply "it is early" To me "the day is early" would be slightly unusual, but might suggest the early part of a longer period, such as a month or year
  • What is the origin of the phrase Top of the morning to you?
    Here "the top of the morning" again means "the beginning of the day"—although it is not clear from the context whether this is synonymous with "dawn" or some other marker of the earliest hour of the day
  • Etymology of history and why the hi- prefix?
    This question is a tad backwards, because looking at the etymology, it's rather clear that it's not a prefix that was added to form "history", but rather a part of the word was lost to form "story" Why that happened, however, is not obvious, so it's still a fair question to ask
  • history - Change from to-day to today - English Language Usage Stack . . .
    In old books, people often use the spelling "to-day" instead of "today" When did the change happen? Also, when people wrote "to-day", did they feel, when pronouncing the word, that it contained two
  • 1st hour, 2nd hour, 3rd hour. . . But how to say zero-th hour?
    The case you gave is interesting, where it is an exception to the schedule for one day to have an additional hour before the hour labeled 'first' To call it 'zeroth' hour would be strange (perfectly recognizable and used by any math geek, but there it is) But then what is the hour that comes before that?
  • Where did Im Jonesing get its meaning from?
    The New Oxford American Dictionary has “Origin 1960’s: said to come from Jones Alley, in Manhattan, associated with drug addicts ” Some online sources dispute the claim and attribute it to Great Jones Street
  • Lunch vs. dinner vs. supper — times and meanings?
    Dinner is considered to be the "main" or largest meal of the day Whether it takes place at noon or in the evening is mostly a cultural thing For instance, many people who grew up in the American South and or on farms traditionally ate larger meals at noontime to give them the strength to keep working through the afternoon Supper is more specifically a lighter evening meal Rooted in the


















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